US Patent No. 10,893,475
ADDRESSES IN A WAKE-UP TRIGGER FRAME
| Patent No. | 10,893,475 |
|---|---|
| Issue Date | January 12, 2021 |
| Title | Addresses In A Wake-up Trigger Frame |
| Inventorship | James Randolph Winter Lepp, Ottawa (CA) Michael Peter Montemurro, Toronto (CA) Stephen McCann, Southampton (GB) |
| Assignee | BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo (CA) |
Claim of US Patent No. 10,893,475
1. A method comprising:receiving, at a wake-up radio of a device and from an access point, a wake-up trigger frame, wherein the wake-up trigger frame includes an identity;
determining whether the identity in the wake-up trigger frame is a unicast receiver identity or a group receiver identity;
in response to determining that the identity in the wake-up trigger frame is the group receiver identity, comparing the group receiver identity with a whitelist, wherein the whitelist comprises a plurality of groupcast addresses that the device intends to wake up for; and
in response to determining that the group receiver identity matches to one of the plurality of groupcast addresses in the whitelist, sending a signal to a primary radio of the device to turn on the primary radio.
determining whether the identity in the wake-up trigger frame is a unicast receiver identity or a group receiver identity;
in response to determining that the identity in the wake-up trigger frame is the group receiver identity, comparing the group receiver identity with a whitelist, wherein the whitelist comprises a plurality of groupcast addresses that the device intends to wake up for; and
in response to determining that the group receiver identity matches to one of the plurality of groupcast addresses in the whitelist, sending a signal to a primary radio of the device to turn on the primary radio.